Grab your TIN FOIL hats guys! Jesus is-a comin back! Yee-haw!
“The Times They Are A Changin’” by Bob Dylan plays in the background.
According to the Pew Research Center, Christianity is facing a sharp decline as Americans are becoming less affliated with religion. Millennials are growing even less affiliated with religion as they get older. There are more religiously unaffiliated Americans than Catholic Americans or mainline Protestant Americans. Those who are unaffiliated are becoming more secular.
What we are experiencing are the last desperate cries of cultural relevancy among the “social conservatives” of the baby boomer and genX generations. The world is not ending, THEIR world is ending. The ultimate projection! Many of the cultural beliefs they grew up with, thanks to the internet, are now seen as outdated and sometimes even ignorant. As we enter the 21st century, many of these Americans feel “left behind” in a world that has changed so much. They feel lost, they feel scared, they feel abandoned and persecuted. Strong political conservatives like Trump serve as a validation to this fear.
In the end, you could say that this film is just a psychological projection from a fading generation.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’